Archives for
September 2007

Video podcast Rocketboom will be moving to Blip.tv, where it will now be sponsored by The Sarah Silverman Program. The sponsorship will include the first ever clickable overlay ads on Quicktime versions of the show, and also feature post-roll adverti...

Yuuguu is at DEMOfall, launching a service that aims to get everyone sharing their computer screens with each other. Derived from the Japanese word for "fashion," Yuuguu is a new cross platform collaboration tool that allows people to easily share th...

3guppies is launching its new moblog widget today for mobile bloggers to update content on their various social networks like MySpace, hi5 and Piczo. As with many other mobile blogging tools for social media-sharing, 3guppies enables you to take a pi...

Ideablob was announced today at DEMOfall as a site where you can grow your small business ideas. Run by Advanta, one of the largest credit card companies in the US, Ideablob is a place for people to post their ideas for a small business and get feedb...

Phreesia is launching a new solution at DEMOfall that automates the process of check-in at the doctor’s office. While perhaps not the sexiest application launching at the conference, Phreesia does sound like it’s tackling a very common problem: illeg...

Google Trends, the search engine’s public tool for monitoring the popularity of different search terms, now updates daily. Previously, Google Trends was only updated once a month, making the data considerably less interesting. On the Official Google ...

DEMOlive saw the introduction of an innovative new method to do local business searches with the launch of FastCall411. The idea behind FastCall411 is that using either your mobile phone or their website, you enter what you're looking for (plumber, l...

Facebook is being investigated by the office of the New York State Attorney General, who accuses the site of failing to keep users safe from sexual predators. The Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has sent a complaint and subpoenaed the company for doc...

Tubes did something today at DEMOfall that seems to be a rarity these days - they came out of beta. With the release of their Release Candidate 2, Tubes is moving forward with interesting ways to synchronize your digital life between your desktop and...

If you have any credits left with Virgin Digital's online music store, you best get to using them as it is going away October 19th. As of last Friday, the UK branch stopped accepting new customers, and also stopped selling any more songs. Users who w...

Agendize is launching its Call-to-Action platform at DEMO, called AgendiZeMe, for small to medium-sized businesses to better monetize ads and content on their site. How does it work? Well, you can choose from 8 customizable buttons that let your read...

In a move sure to be welcome by application developers, Facebook has implemented Bugzilla to allow users to track bugs. This adds some much-needed organization to bug reporting, which previously took place over email and through the developer discuss...

Naymz, the online identity control service, is relaunching its site with more social features and additional tools for helping you improve and maintain your online reputation. The purpose in doing so is to let you improve your online networking capab...

mSpoke is launching FeedHub at DEMO today. This will be a personalized feed reader that learns your behavior and gives you the articles you're most likely to find interesting. Using mSpoke's patent-pending mPower technology, FeedHub will pull info fr...

Just a friendly reminder that MySpace and MTV will be hosting the one-on-one Presidential Candidate Diaglogues with John Edwards this Thursday, September 27th, at 12 Noon, ET. The event will be streamed live on both MySpace and MTV. Users will be abl...

So for all of you that have been debating whether or not to download an iPhone unlock hack, or even adding a third-party native application using Installer.app, know that your Apple warranty may very well be voided. Yup. As in null and void. Permanen...

NetBooks, the web-based system for running your business, is teaming up with PayCycle, an online payroll system. The new combined system is called True Small Businesses (TSBs), which offers an integration of PayCycle's services into Netbooks. In turn...

Turn, an online ad network that automates the process of selecting the best ad placements, has raised $8 million in financing. The company is notable for being founded by Jim Barnett, the former CEO of Altavista, which was one of the more popular sea...

MyQuire brought their new collaboration tool to DEMOfall to announce its readiness for the marketplace. Part social networking and part collaboration tool, MyQuire lets you set up a page about yourself that makes it easy for everyone to see the progr...

We heard last week that Wordpress would be launching a new release today. Well, it's here. Tagging and tag clouds are now available for Wordpress bloggers. There's also the new update notification feature that lets you know when there's a new release...

If you're a Bloglines user, you may have noticed that your Facebook feed activities are showing up in this personal feed reader service. Well, at least some users have experienced this particular situation. A Facebook feed mistakenly on Bloglines? Re...

AnywhereCD, the online music retailer that sold DRM-free digital music, is closing up shop. It's contract for selling CDs and mp3s from Warner Music Group expires, leaving the company with little inventory. Founded by Michael Robertson, better known ...

Earthmine is debuting new mapping technology at DEMOfall that aims to let users view street-level images from a human perspective. By combining panoramic imagery that the company has acquired with data such as the latitude and longitude of each pixel...

I don't think this is what Google had in mind when it revealed its plans to "go open." Bedford has just revealed three vulnerabilities on Google, the first of which is in the Blogspot polls feature. The 'font' parameter was not being cleaned before b...

To promote the new partnership with Apple and its wi-fi music store, Starbucks will be handing out 50 million iTunes songs to U.S. customers between October 2 and November 7, 2007. The new wi-fi Music Store features will be debuting at select Starbuc...

Kannuu took the lid off their new mobile search product at DEMOfall today. Available for immediate use, Kannuu is a new type of interface for searching via mobile devices. All it requires is that the device have four directional buttons and you're re...

BatchBlue Software, a web-based software provider, is launching a new contact management product called BatchBook at DEMOfall. BatchBook includes features such as communications logs, the ability to create mailing lists, task lists, and also allows u...

EchoStar Communications Corporation, the parent company for DISH Network, has announced its agreement to acquire Sling Media, creator of the Sling suite, which lets you do things like control your television shows at any time, from their computers or...

Google has updated the mobile version of their popular email app, Gmail, located at m.gmail.com. The new version includes more of the features you know and love from the full-version. You can now add links to some of your labels and view sections suc...

Friendster has just announced a traditional Chinese version of its social network. This is obviously a move for global expansion, to a part of the world that is high in population and has a large amount of Internet users in a target demographic. And ...

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